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THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1964 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 5 QUESTION BOX Resisting Temptation? BY MONSIGNOR J. O. CONWAY Q. IF I AM TEMPTED TO COMMIT A CER TAIN MORTAL SIN IN BOTH THOUGHT AND DEED, WHAT HAVE I GAINED IF I RESIST THE TEMPTATION REGARDING THE DEED, BUT COMMIT THE MORTAL SIN IN THOUGHT? I AM AS DEAD WITH ONE SIN AS WITH TWO. A. You love God less if you deliberately of fend Him twice, just because you have done it once. There may well be elements of scandal which make the external sin worse. It is surely a worse sin because it is more voluntary and deliberate. We should not admit too quickly that we have committ ed deliberate mortal sin in thought; we may still be dally ing with temptation in a weak, uncertain way. True religious conviction should take us beyond the stage of merely worrying about our own skin and how much it will be singed. There isn't much love in such selfish concern. *** Q. WHAT KIND OF SIN I S IT WHEN WE FAIL TO LISTEN TO THE NON-INFALLIBLE BUT SOLEMN TEACHINGS OF THE POPE ON TEMPORAL POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC MAT TERS? WHAT IF WE ACTIVELY FIGHT AGAINST THE VERY THINGS HE SAYS ARE MOST CA THOLIC IN SPIRIT AND FOR WHICH HE IS PRAYING? I MEAN THINGS LIKE INTERRACIAL JUSTICE, ORGANIZATIONS FOR INTERNAT IONAL PEACE, ETC. A. What kind of sin is it when a child scorns the teachings of his parents regarding morality or similar serious matters? Sometimes in our American politics the con flict of issues is not clearly defined. Sometimes we find little to choose between personalities. But we should still not be indifferent. Before our present Congress, for instance, there are issues which will demand that our Senators, especially, stand up and be counted. The side on which they stand should tell any Catholic how to vote when these men become candidates. Q. HOW CAN JACKIE^S SISTER GET Atf ANNULMENT? ARE ANNULMENTS FOR THE RICH, OR FOR A PRINCE AND PRINCESS? OR WAS IT ONLY BECAUSE SHE IS JACKIE’S SISTER? IN 1534 HENRY VIII ASKED FOR AN ANNULMENT FROM CATHERINE TO MARRY ANNE BOLEYN BECAUSE HE WANTED A SON. THIS REASON SEEMS TO BE AS GOOD OR BETTER THAN JACKIE’S SISTER’S REA SON. HOW CAN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH DO THIS? THIS IS GOD’S LAW; NOT THE CHURCH’S. THIS HAS HURT ME: I AM ASHAMED TO BE A CATHOLIC. THIS IS WHY PEOPLE LOSE THEIR RELIGION. PLEASE PRAY THAT I MIGHT SEE THE LIGHT. I AM THE MOTHER OF TWO TEENAGERS. WHAT DO I TELL THEM? A. You might start out by telling your teen agers that they should have confidence in the integrity and honesty of the highest judicial officers in the Church of Jesus Christ. When decisions are given which we do not under stand, proper humility will prompt us to in quire about them calmly, and without suspic ions and allegations. In 1534 Pope Clement VII, after seven years of study, found that Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon had apparently been validly mar ried. He had no choice but to deny Henry’s petition for a declaration of nullity. He had to conform to the truth and to God’s law, even though he knew his decision might lose all of England to the Church. We are certainly endangering our faith when we question the authority of the Pope to teach us in matters related to doctrine and morality. Interracial and social justice are moral quest ions. Justice is the basic virtue Which regulates practical relationships between men; it is clear ly within the range of the authority given to St, Peter and his successors - as faith teaches us. Peace too involves many virtues - particu larly justice and charity in multiple manner. Even to question the Pope’s teachings in these matters is to be much less than Catholic and to offend against obedience, respect and humility. To talk or write or work against them involves* direct' sins against justice and charity along with the rest, > encyclical is a very solemn method of teaching, prepared with great care, and'is sued in formal manner. It represents the teach ing of Jesus Christ through his Vicar on earth; the authentic teachings of the Church of Christ; and many authorities are convinced that some encyclicals contain infallible* pronouncements. To treat them as trivialities’is & matter of pre sumption approaching heresy/"; ’** Q. A PROMINENT CATHOLIC THEOLOGIAN STATED THAT A CITIZEN’S NEGLIGENT FAIL URE TO VOTE WOULD BE A GRIEVOUS SIN IF THERE WERE GRAVE ISSUESCONFRONTING THE NATION AND THERE WAS A NEED FOR HIGHEST QUALITY POLITICAL LEADERS. HOW CAN A CITIZEN TELL WHETHER NATIONAL, AND INTERNATIONAL, CONDITIONS ARE SO GRAVE THAT HIS FAILURE TO VOTE WOULD BE A MORTAL SIN? WHAT COMMANDMENT WOULD BE VIOLATED BY SUCH FAILURE? A. VVhy should we always be quibbling about mortaL sin? As a citizen and as a Catholic you have a duty to vote. Are you going to neglect your plain duty simply because you may squeeze by with only a venial sin? What about love of God and country? Along with the duty to vote goes the duty of informing ourselves about the issues and the persons involved. In these days of tension our country needs leaders of highest quality all the time. Great issues of social justice confront our nation’s internal welfare; and issues of international justice are multiplex, many of them involving a danger of nuclear war. Now, after nearly seven years of investi gation, the Sacred Roman Rota has found proof that the former marriage of Lee Bouvier Radziwill was in fact invalid - no real mar riage from the beginning - so they had no choice but to declare it invalid. Truth and justice demanded such declaration. God’s law demanded it. So the judges of the Rota fol lowed their onsciences even though they knew their decision might set tongues wagging. Just about every diocese in the Catholic world has a court, established by the local bishop, to hear the evidence in cases similar to that of Princess Radziwill, and to try to judge and give decisions. My own job for twenty-some years has been to head such a court. I have helped try to decide cases similar to that of Jackie’s sister. Cases of this kind are very difficult to ! p r ove; so I suppose we have given many more negative decisions than affirmative ones ( an affirmative decision is one which declares th6 J marriage invalid ). When we do give an affirmative decision there must be an appeal from our decision to another court (in our case that of the Archdiocese). Sometimes this other court disagrees with us. Then appeal is made to the Roman Rota for a third trial. I have seen many cases go through the Rota; the process is long and exacting, but the re sult is always one of sound justice. I have studied many decisions of the Rota; they are always carefully reasoned from brilliant know ledge of the law and perceptive attention to the facts of the case as found in the evidence. I trust a decision of the Rota as I trust the Bible (making allowance for human fallibility). I know not the history of the case of Princess Radziwill. It was probably tried twice in diocesan courts before it reached the Rota. It may have been tried more than once by different "turns” of the Rota. But this I know: the evidence wa» clear and convincing or she would never have received a favorable decision. The Rota hears and decides several hundred cases a year - about half of them for pauper* who can pay none of the expenses. Possibly half of these cases end in affirmative decisions -declarations of nullity. (They have been well sifted before the Rota gets them). Besides, there are thousands of declarations of nullity given each year by diocesan courts - cases which never reach the Rota. No fuss is raised when Joe Blow's marriage is declared invalid. It is front page news when' Lee Radziwill gets the same decision. This declaration of nullity makes me proud to be a Catholic and a part of the judicial ma chinery of the Church which seeks always to act justly and in accord with truth, regardless of personalities. LITURGICAL CHANGE Understandable Confusion CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 more immediate and natural response. Even formally dictated common prayer will have more of a spontaneous flavor when it is clothed in our mother tongue. This should lead us to approach easily the reforms of ritual when they are ef fected after the Council, The one criterion which, above all others, will determine the new forms of the liturgy will be pastoral concern for the good of souls. Esthetics and tradition will have to cede place. The first and foremost consideration will always have to be the effectiveness of the liturgy in its main con cern, the sanctification of the faithful. This is the determining factor behind the simplification, the use of the vernacular, the clear definition of the roles of priest and layman in public worship. It is also the reason which dicutes the renewed emphasis on Scripture witnessed by the Constitu tion. Nothing can speak as effectively to the heart and mind as the inspired word of God. The stress upon this point in the Constitution implies a reali zation that we have been remiss in this regard in the past. We can look forward to considerably more use of the Bible, Old and NewTestaments, in the future. Probably a longer cycle of readings for the Sunday Masses will be evolved so that a broad er and more varied diet of God's word will be made available. There are hints of the liturgy of the future in the reformed ceremonies for Good Friday and the Vigil of Easter. In these solemn celebra tions, non-essentials have been done away with and simple, me**n» \t;Jul lines have been drawn between the various phases of the service. Our sight is con centrated upon the subsunce of what we are do ing - achieving the honor of God and our own proper relationship to Him and among ourselves. The exercise of our baptismal prerogatives is clear and obvious. We can look forward to a re peated and varied renewal of this experience at each celebration of the liturgy of the future. Saints in Black and White ST. SCHOLASTICA 88 Across 1. Suede 4. Prinij donna I. Eye inflammation 14. Sleeping place 14. Storm direction 15. Prow 16. 3rd letter ot the alphabet 17 Nigerian Negro IS. Hymn 19. Semester 20. Female name 21. Livonian; abbr. 22. Broad 24. Swine 26. Helm position 27. City in New Hampshire 30. Stain 33. Plaster 36. Sc. Benedict was her 40. Dynamite 43 Edge of molding 45. Cell 46. Marsh plant ••»*. Happen '50. Boredom 51. Armadillos 53- Pertaining to the blood 5 5. Bushy chimps 56 She governed tt t rtiry near Monte 58. Tax assessment 60. Enclosure 161. Exalt •6J. Tree, nine family 65. lixcrctc 28. 67 Obscene 71 Sense 29 74. 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Spirit Groove Forward Negotiate Tithe Nobel Price winner She died iu the ' ear . .43. Presently Sulfix (nuuu) Frolic Joint Cereal ^raiu "Hcurt of Dixie": abbr. Nothing Insect ANSWER TO LAST WEEK’S PUZZLE ON-PAGE 7 CARDINAL CUSHING Prelate Explains Opposed School BOSTON, Feb. 28(NC) — Richard Cardinal Cushing, in a statement addressed to come dian Dick Gregory, has explain ed his opposition to school boy cotts sponsored by civil rights groups. The Archbishop of Boston said he thought neighborhood and living conditions are a far more pressing challenge to social justice than racially imbalanced schools, although he said these must receive "prompt attention.” HE PROPOSED a special program of late afternoon or early evening study halls where school children in under privileged areas could do their homework, enjoy wholesome recreational facilities and, if need be, get "a good hot sup- II per. The Cardinal maintained that the home "is the first and fore most classroom, "but he said that bad home conditions in some areas keep children from doing their home study. "CROWDED, INFERIOR liv ing quarters, unemployed fath ers, shattered families, dis tressed neighborhoods— these do not conduce to a full and harmonious education, no mat ter what the formal advantage of schooling,” the Cardinal wrote. The Cardinal addressed his statement to Dick Gregory, a Negro comedian who has thr own himself into the civil rights protest movement, especially in the South. CARDINAL CUSHING, who publicly opposed the school boycott here (Feb. 26) which kept 9,000 children out of school in protest against de facto seg- eration, noted that Gregory ex pressed disappointment in his position* Gregory said of the Cardinal at a press conference; "If I had to vote for one man to give the whole world justice, I would have voted for him." IN A "Dear Dick” reply, the Cardinal praised the comedian for "his willingness to sacri fice and suffer for his belief in the dignity of human be ings." He explained that he opposed the boycott because he believes such demonstrations call atten tion to themselves and not the problem which prompted them; that they throw “emotional obs tacles in the way of expert stu dy” and that "I do not like to see children encouraged to defy the law, even when the law al- Why He Boycott lows imperfections to exist in our society.” "MASS TRUANCY, no mat ter how highly motivated, in my judgment tends to foster a spi rit of rebellion or indifference toward lawful authority in chil dren and victimizes rather than inspires them. Children should be educated, not exhibited,” the Cardinal said. In his statement, the Card inal said he would like the economy, private and public, "to make new efforts to provide more and more good jobs for Negro fathers, more and more decent housing in so- called white suburban areas, more and more moral and cult ural training to heal and bind the wounds of torn and sepera- ted families,” CARDINAL CUSHING offer ed use of Catholic facilities in underpriviileged areas as study hall facilities. He expressed confidence his proposal would be agreeable to the city and the state and said many persons, such as college students, would volunteer to put the program across. Seminary Fund Remember the SEMINARY FUND of the Archdiocese of Atlanta in your Will. Be quests should be made to the “Most Rev erend Paul J. Hallinan, Archbishop of the ARNOLD VIEWING 4 Seven Days In May 9 "j Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta and his suc cessors in office”, participate in the daily prayers of our seminarians and in the Masses offered annually for the benefactors of our SEMINARY FUND. BY JAMES W. ARNOLD In "Seven Days in May,” the Pentagon, depicted as a paranoiac beehive of the Right VViqg, plots to overthrow a 1974 president w r ho has pushed through an unpopular disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union. Only the sheerest bad luck keeps the bad guys from winning. One’s first impulse is to dismiss the drama as surplus fantasy from the "Twilight Zone” (Rod Serling adapted the popular Knebel-Bailey novel for the screen). But as a man who once scoffed at a student’s story about a sniper who shota presi dent during a motorcade, I’m no longer certain that ours is not a science-fiction world. IN "SEVEN DAYS,” how'ever, there is a whole string of improbabilities, each full of dreadful implications about the state of the republic. First, it is assumed that the president would make, and the Senate ratify, a treaty unanimously opposed by the Joint Chiefs he himself had appointed. Worse yet, Gallup shows support from only 29 percent of the public. This could happen only if a Senate majority had all •t once become suicidally idea listic, an event about as likely as the abolition of Congress. Second, it is assumed that all but one of the Joint Chiefs would ”go along” with the re volt - and that the holdout would * keep his mouth shut, exhibiting greater loyalty to the clique than to the Constitu tion he has sworn to defend. This assumption, sloppy and insulting, suggests the existence of a monolithic "military mind” which grants career success only to automatons. THIRDLY, IF the proposed-coup d’etat is to have any chance, it must assume the collusion of all major elements of the armed forces, communica tion media, and opinion leaders of the public. The chief plotter (a dashing Air Force general played by Burt Lancaster) plans no mere holding action pending the restoration of the Constitution. He means to be Boss, and he expects everyone to love him. If all these assumptions could be safely made- now, in 1974 or 2074-then the fact that Lancaster and friends are foiled by the discovery of a batter ed cigaret case is of little comfort. America could not live, and would not deserve to. As S.L.A. Marshall has noted, the victorious president dares not even let the people know what has happened. The whole incident is hushed up, resignations are submitted, life goes on. The country, saved, continues its ignorant march to oblivion. THE YARN is basically a political liberal’s nightmare, giving shape to his worst fears about malevolent conspiracy among the military and re actionaries 'to prefer aggressive', patriotic dic tatorship to peace-seeking, world-oriented demo cracy. In its way the vision is as unhealthy and oversimplified as the fantasies concocted on the other side by Mr. Welch. Director John Frankenheimer has been in this nightmare world before ("The Manchurian Candi date"); the new film marks a step up from the level of Batman comics to, say, the Saturday Even ing Post. The characterizations are credible and fair. One fears, in fact, that Lancaster’s speeches may draw cheers from the audience. The issue in the revolt is clearly one of means, not ends; it is a difference less sensitive talents could well have muddied. THERE IS concentration on realistic detail - White House picket lines, Senate hearings, presi dential press conferences, slick gadget-filled Pentagon interiors. There is a convincing sense of fitness and understatement that can be contrast ed with the bizarre melodrama pf Preminger's "Advise and Consent.” Among the actors the most help comes from Frederic March as the harassed "commonman” president facing the challenge of the dynamic Lan caster. In their confrontation scene, the audience is visually forced to choose between the nervous, unspectacular democrat and the charismatic mili tary hero. March is the first convincing, and mov ing, modern president since Alexander Knox did "Wilson,” and Lancaster makes his mandisturb- ingly attractive. KIRK DOUGLAS, as a loyal officer who discov ers the plot, has the task of restraining his for mid- able emotions. He is fine except for one impossi ble scene with the (how to say the truth without hurting?) fading Ava Gardner. The cad must make love to her to get certain letters...oh, the jobs one is forced to do for one’s country. Edmund O’Brien, as a boozy cotton senator from Georgia, and Martin Balsam, as a tough presidential assis tant, make it all somewhat easier to swallow. Frankenheimer has great sport with the Penta gon's closed-circuit TV sets, including using them for a new twist on the Villain-is-Coming-While- the-Hero-Searches-his-Room scene. He also gets striking effects with "inside” shots - from in side cars, guard booths, etc. - and is a fantastic user of closeups on meaningful symbols (incri minating letters, cigaret cases) during the action. Film buffs will enjoy a good brawl on the White House sidewalk, shot with a hand-held camera, and a clever scene in an air terminal. A little Negro boy is playing with a toy half-track while actor O’Brien, who has just escaped from the fascists in a real one, searches for a kidnapped friend. At the tense fadeout, O’Brien walks into the distance and one hears the tinny, but ominous, rat-tat-tat of the toy. CURRENT RECOMMENDED FILMS: For everyone: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; Lord of the Flies, Lilies of the Field, The Great Escape. For connoisseurs: Winter Light, 8 1/2, Tom Jones, This Sporting Life, The Leopard. Better than most; Love With the Proper Stranger, Charade. God Love You BY MOST REVEREND FULTON J. SHEEN There was a leper who lived in one of our larger cities. For years the disease had eaten nerves in his hands and feet and scar red his face. Doctors, not familiar with the disease, did not dis cover it until it had so ravaged him that boys made fun of him in the streets and on subways, and women said: "He will soon be gone. You will not have to look at that ugly face much longer.” A priest heard about him, finding him the very day he contemplated suicide. With charity and frankness he told him: "You will never find any one to love you in this world ex cept those who love Our Lord.” As the disease was no longer communicative, the priest rent ed an apartment for him and helped him back on his feet. But more important, he began in structing him in the Faith over a period of two years. It took pat ience and much charity to overcome the bitterness in his heart. A few weeks before his First Communion, the leper brought three young married women, all ex-fashion models, to the priest. One of them had heard about our friend while making a picture about leprosy in Africa, Each of these women, (none of them Cath olic) took turns bringing him to their home on weekends. The priest said to them: "I know Ilovehim because he is Christ to me, the Christ who seemed like a leper on the Cross. 1 love him be cause he is a living crucifix, not a plastic one, and every time he comes to my house, he comes as the ambassador of the poor of the world. But tell me, why do you bear him such charity?” They answered: "For the same reasonl Christ blesses our homes when he enters.” If only we could inspire some of you rich people, who give vast sums of money to those who are already rich, to give to the poor. Find "Living Crucifixes.” There are millions of them in Africa, Asia and Latin America I Christ is in the poor just because they are poor. He is in the rich not because they are rich, but only be cause they are virtuous I There is a world of difference between the twol Do not waste your money on plastic crucifixes, synthetic Christs. The rich can thank you now, but as Our Lord said "you have already had your reward.” The poor cannot thank you. The Holy Father never tells you whom he helps when you aid him through his Society for the Propagation of the Faith. Therefore, the Lord must thank you—and His thanks is heavenl GOD LOVE YOU to Mrs. M. V. for $20 "For Christ’s poor.” ....to S. F, for $3 "I saved this money by walking instead of taking a bus.” ...to a Waitress for her Tuesday tips each week "In honor of St. Anne, my patron saint.” ....to Mrs. R.E.R. for $5 "I prim- ised this to the Missions in St. Anthony's name for a favor granted.” The ten letters of GOD LOVE YOU spell out a decade of the rosary as they encircle the medal originated by Bishop Sheen to honor the Madonna of the World, With your request and correspond ing offering you may order a GOD LOVE YOU medal in any of the following styles: $ 2 small sterling silver $ 3 small 10 k gold filled $ 5 large sterling silver $10 large 10k gold filled Cut out this column* pin your sacrifice to It and mail It to Most Rev. Fulton J. Sheen, National Director of the Society for the Pro pagation of the Faith, 366 Fifth Avenue, New York lx. N. Y. or your Archdioceaan Director, Very Rev. Harold*^ Rainey P. 0. Box 12047 Northside Station, Atlanta 5, Ga.